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Example sentences for "known fact"

  • It is a well-known fact, that the prevailing current of the atmosphere in high latitudes is from the westward.

  • To all of you it is a well-known fact, that nothing in the human body remains even for a moment in the same state; but that in every part of the body a continued exchange takes place.

  • Hence the well-known fact, that after dinner, though we can eat nothing more, yet we like to taste some good raw fruit, or cooked fruit of any kind.

  • When other conditions are favorable, it encourages bacterial life which, as is now a well-known fact, is an important factor in developing and maintaining soil fertility.

  • This accounts for the well-known fact that in humid countries any subsoil that may have been plowed up is reduced to a normal state of fertility and crop production only after several years of exposure to the elements.

  • It is a well-known fact, that a considerable portion of Mr Jefferson's slaves were his own children.

  • It is a well-known fact, that there is a species of bronchitis, or affection of the lungs, peculiar to the ministers in the United States, arising from their excessive labours in their vocation.

  • That giraffes are occasionally killed by lions is, of course, a well-known fact, but my own experience leads me to believe that such cases are quite exceptional.

  • The creator begins by imitating: this is such a well-known fact that it is needless to give proof of it, and it is subject to few exceptions.

  • Then he began to talk in a very loud voice: 'Why, it's a well-known fact.

  • It was a well-known fact that he used to go round to Misery's house nearly every night to tell him every little thing that had happened on the job during the day!

  • It's a well-known fact,' said several others.

  • He had cited his well-known fact to me several times.

  • I am not, and never shall be either a money king or a gold bug, but in mere dread of hearing Gorman produce his well-known fact again I took up the task of defending the class to which Ascher belongs.

  • How this well-known fact is to be met by the theory of germ-plasm is a question which does not seem to have thus far engaged the attention of Professor Weismann, or of any of his followers.

  • This well-known fact in itself seems enough to prove that the formative material in question must certainly admit, at all events in many cases, of being distributed throughout all the tissues of living organisms.

  • There have been one or two such theories prior to Weismann’s, and they were founded on the well-known fact of congenital characters being at any rate much more heritable than are acquired characters.

  • As an evidence of this, they adduce the well-known fact of its frequently happening that a partridge gets up the moment the guns have left the spot, though no previous noise had induced it to stir.

  • In proof of this stands the well-known fact, that unless the breed be sedulously kept up, it is apt to degenerate, or to become extinct.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "known fact" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    afterwards learned; die for; different periods; eighth inch; haired gentleman; known also; known fact; known from; known lines; known only; known passage; known through; known unto; known voice; known weight; known work; late afternoon; round about; said some; separate colony; the seventh; thou shouldst; though expecting; throwing himself; walnut trees; what passes